Long Pond man sentenced for stabbing

Edward Baliski Jr., 59, of Long Pond, was sentenced Friday to 6½ to 13 years in state prison after pleading guilty to stabbing his now-ex-girlfriend's 34-year-old son in their Tunkhannock Township home in April.

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By Staff report

Posted Dec. 21, 2013 at 12:01 AM

By Staff report

Posted Dec. 21, 2013 at 12:01 AM

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Edward Baliski Jr., 59, of Long Pond, was sentenced Friday to 6½ to 13 years in state prison after pleading guilty to stabbing his now-ex-girlfriend's 34-year-old son in their Tunkhannock Township home in April.

Pocono Mountain Regional Police said they arrived at the residence at 4:10 p.m. April 29 to find Baliski standing on the back deck and David Gallagher on the kitchen floor with a stab wound to the left side and Gallagher's mother leaning over him.

According to police, Baliski later said he had come home and gotten into an argument with Gallagher and that Gallagher had attacked him.

Baliski said he pulled a folding knife from his pocket and stabbed Gallagher multiple times, saying, "I was tired of him beating me up," according to police.

Police retrieved a folding knife from the deck area and a survival-type knife from the kitchen area.